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dalton Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  2. English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Autun (d’Autun) in Seine-et-Loire, France. The place name derives from the Latin form Augustodunum, a compound of the imperial name Augustus + the Gaulish element dun ‘hill’, ‘fort’.

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Distribution of dalton Families in the US in 1920
Number of dalton families
 358-713
 120-357		 1-119
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GGGrandfather(Henry Dalton) Gale Dalton 4
William Dalton dink12 0
Dalton relatives dihannek 1
Richard and Catherine Dalton of Poultney, VT MaggieDel 5
Daltons from Kent, England RCollinson5460 5
Frank Dalton/ Bell County,Harlan Cunty Kentucky areas 1900's peggydalton58 5
Ball M Dalton, Clayton Co., Iowa, 1895 Census sandymorrison1 1
Dalton Family Tree bsbennett_1 2
William the original settler Kenneth 5
Dalton's of Virginia chelly71 7
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